Prof. Tomoyuki (Tomo) Naito
Vice President and Professor,Kobe Institute of Computing, JAPAN
Biography
Tomo is the Vice President and Professor at Graduate School of Information Technology, Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan. In his over 25 years of professional career, he has been working with clients on digital economy policy acceleration and strategy formulation as well as its implementation for effective development; in particular ICT use leapfrogging practice in developing countries. His professional interests include digital economy, generative AI utilization, distance learning, ICT innovation ecosystem, Internet of Things, FabLabs, Mobile Big Data solution, and other related areas. Prior to assuming his current position as a graduate school professor, he was Senior Advisor in charge of ICT and Innovation for the development field at Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Previously, he was Program Manager at the World Bank in charge of the Tokyo Development Learning Center, Director of Planning as well as Director of Transportation and ICT at JICA headquarters. He is serving for multiple public advisory committees as designated member including Global Steering Committee of “Internet for All” project at the World Economic Forum (2016-2019), Regional Governing Committee of the Global Development Learning Network Asia-Pacific (2011–2021), Global Strategy Working Group under the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications of the Government of Japan (2018–2019), and others. His recent paper “Redefining the Smart City for Sustainable Development” is contained in the Brookings Institution’s book “Breakthrough (2021).” The paper “Role of ICT in education redefined by COVID-19” is contained in the book “SDGs and International Contribution under the Pandemic Era (2021: in Japanese).” Another paper “Indispensable ICT for achieving SDGs” is contained in the book “International Contribution and Realization of SDGs (2019: in Japanese).” He is also a registered 1st class architect in Japan since 1997. He completed doctoral course of international relations, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS), Waseda University, Japan, in 2008. He holds a Master of Arts in international relations degree from GSAPS, Waseda University, Japan.
